I accomplished very little today beyond going to work and coming home. I spent a bit of time working on decluttering The Room of Doom, but progress seems infinitesimal.

I read a quote from author Jack London on a web site called The Art of Adventure. The London quote led me to look at a bit of biographical info on London. That guy accomplished more between the ages of 13 and 17 than I have, or ever will, in my lifetime! Time have changed, though. How likely is it that a 13 year old, or even a 30 year old, or a 60 year old, could make enough money working a menial job for a few months to buy a sloop and go into the oyster fishing business… or oyster piracy business, in London’s case? How likely is it that someone of young years and zero experience could get hired on to a ship crew for a voyage to Asia? In many ways the world today offers far more opportunity than the world of the 1880s… like not dying of smallpox or cholera, for instance. But in other ways, opportunity is significantly more limited, particularly as a result of the increased financial cost of… everything.

Anyway, I need to turn off the Interwebz browser and declutter some more.

Three day weekend. Gotta make a list of things to do. They will be boring, around-the-house things, the same things I’ve been working on for seemingly forever, but more realistically what has been about three weeks. Progress seems slow, if there’s been any progress at all, but they’re baby steps in the right direction. Of course, what’s the point in taking baby steps in the right direction if the ultimate destination is as far away as the moon?